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HP7: It All Ends Here

Trey is ready for the Grand Finale! Trey and I were thrilled to get to the final Harry Potter movie tonight!  We watched in 3D and loved every. single. moment.  Trey's review at the end?  "Bloody brilliant!"  It was the best of all the movies and totally did justice to the series.  I am so happy how close the movies stayed to the original books.  And I am thrilled with how it all was resolved in the final movie.  Beautifully done.

A Christmas Carol -- Bah!

I admit it; I have committed what a good friend terms a "Mommy Foul." I was not diligent enough in checking my creepy-radar before I took my nine-year-old to see "A Christmas Carol" this weekend. I carelessly assumed that a Disney movie with Jim Carrey targeted to kids would be .... well, not so creepy. I envisioned more of an animated, humorous, Mary Poppins-like, don't-we-all-feel-like-a-Merry Christmas-now kind of movie. What we saw was a very dark, scary, and creepy version of this classic tale. I know, I know. You're all shaking your fingers at me and thinking, "Hasn't she heard the story of 'A Christmas Carol' before?" Yes, of course I have, and yes, I knew it would have ghosts that visit, but I was fooled into thinking that they would be a happy, Casper-like ghosts, smiling and gently reminding our beloved Scrooge to be more giving and kind. These ghosts were more of the 'your-soul-is-bound-for-Hell' kind of ghosts an...